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<strong>BIS</strong> <strong>445</strong> <strong>DeVry</strong> Week 1 <strong>Quiz</strong> Latest<br />
1. Question : (TCO 1) A ________is a central repository of historical data that is organized for easy access and<br />
manipulation to support decision making.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
database<br />
data warehouse<br />
data repository<br />
data disk<br />
Question 2. Question : (TCO 1) Management is a process by which organizational goals are achieved by using<br />
resources. The resources are considered ________, and attainment of goals is viewed as the ________ of the process.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
expenses; profits<br />
inputs; output<br />
pressures; opportunities<br />
scarce; success<br />
Question 3. Question : (TCO 1) Today's computerized systems possess capabilities that can facilitate decision<br />
support in a number of ways, including each of the following, except:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
increased productivity of group members.<br />
improved communication and collaboration.<br />
agility support.<br />
reduced environmental pressures.<br />
Question 4. Question : (TCO 1) A(n) ________ is a rule-based system that provides a solution – usually in one<br />
functional area such as finance or manufacturing – to a specific, repetitive managerial problem.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
decision support system (DSS)<br />
transaction processing system (TPS)<br />
online analytical processing system (OLAP)<br />
automated decision system (ADS)<br />
Question 5. Question : (TCO 1) The major benefit of ________ to the company is the ability to provide accurate<br />
information when needed.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
data warehouse<br />
analytical models
o<br />
o<br />
management information systems<br />
business intelligence<br />
Question 6. Question : (TCO 1) Which of the following models behaves like the real system, but does not look<br />
like it?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Composite model<br />
Analog model<br />
Dense model<br />
Iconic model<br />
Question 7. Question : (TCO 1) A(n) ________ is a criterion that describes the acceptability of a solution<br />
approach. In a model, it is a result variable.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
principle of choice<br />
optimization variable<br />
trade-off<br />
worst-case criterion<br />
Question 8. Question : (TCO 1) Which of the following, by definition, requires a decision maker to consider the<br />
impact of each alternative course of action on the entire organization because a decision made in one area may have<br />
significant effects in other areas?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Satisfaction<br />
Worst-case<br />
Feasibility<br />
Optimization<br />
Question 9. Question : (TCO 1) Which of the following is a study of the effect of a change on one or more input<br />
variables in a proposed solution?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Sensitivity analysis<br />
Boundary analysis<br />
Fish bone analysis<br />
Input-output analysis<br />
Question 10. Question : (TCO 1) The Museum of Natural History in Aarhus, Denmark uses ________ to collect<br />
detailed information about visitors' use of the exhibits to help determine visitors' behaviors in order to identify highdemand<br />
exhibits.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
group decision systems<br />
algorithms<br />
RFID<br />
expert systems<br />
Question 11. Question : (TCO 1) Which of the following systems is used to assist the company with coordinating<br />
information and resources in order to support business processes for all functional areas?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
ERP<br />
SCM<br />
CRM<br />
NLP<br />
Question 12. Question : (TCO 1) ________ is the first component of the DSS architecture.<br />
o<br />
Hardware
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Software<br />
Data<br />
Information<br />
Question 13. Question : (TCO 9) Assume you have a CarTable. You need to update the date it was purchased<br />
to 1/15/2008. Its CarID is 999. Which of the following SQL statements would do this the best?<br />
o UPDATE CarTable SET PurchaseDate to #1/15/2008#<br />
o UPDATE CarTable SET PurchaseDate = #1/15/2008#<br />
o UPDATE CarTable SET PurchaseDate = 1/15/2008<br />
o UPDATE CarTable SET PurchaseDate = #1/15/2008# WHERE CarID = 999<br />
Question 14. Question : (TCO 9) Which of the following statements is false about DELETE queries?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
A DELETE query without a WHERE clause deletes all of the data in a table.<br />
If you are deleting a specific row in a table, you should identify the item to be deleted by its primary key value.<br />
UPDATE queries that simply set all values in the row to zero or an empty string are preferred to using a<br />
DELETE query.<br />
None of the above<br />
Question 15. Question : (TCO 9) Assume you have a CourseTable in Microsoft Access that has the structure in<br />
the image below. Which of the following SQL Statements would insert a new course into the database?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
INSERT into CourseTable (CourseCode, CourseDescription, CourseCreditHours, SessionOfferred, Elective)<br />
VALUES ('<strong>BIS</strong>245', 'Database Concepts', '4', '2/1/2008', 'Yes')<br />
ADD into CourseTable (CourseCode, CourseDescription, CourseCreditHours, SessionOfferred, Elective)<br />
VALUES (<strong>BIS</strong>245, Database Concepts, 4, 2/1/2008, Yes)<br />
UPDATE into CourseTable (CourseCode, CourseDescription, CourseCreditHours, SessionOfferred, Elective)<br />
VALUES('<strong>BIS</strong>245', 'Database Concepts', 4, 2/1/2008, 'Yes')<br />
INSERT into CourseTable (CourseCode, CourseDescription, CourseCreditHours, Elective) VALUES<br />
('<strong>BIS</strong>245', 'Database Concepts', 4, #2/1/2008#, Yes)<br />
<strong>BIS</strong> <strong>445</strong> <strong>DeVry</strong> Week 2 <strong>Quiz</strong> Latest<br />
Question 1. Question : (TCO 2) ________ implies the use of models and data to improve an organization's<br />
performance or competitive posture.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Business applications<br />
Business analytics<br />
Business intelligence<br />
Business rules<br />
Question 2. Question : (TCO 2) Which of the following subsystems can support any of the other subsystems or<br />
act as an independent component and provide intelligence to augment the decision maker's own?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Knowledge-base management subsystem<br />
Intelligence-base subsystem<br />
User interface subsystem<br />
Expertise-base subsystem<br />
Question 3. Question : (TCO 7) A database is created, accessed, and updated by a(n) ________.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
expert system<br />
animation system<br />
knowledge system
o<br />
database management system<br />
Question 4. Question : (TCO 2) The ________ is especially appropriate for supporting the intelligence phase of<br />
the decision making process by helping to scan data and identify problem areas or opportunities.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
intelligence facility<br />
query facility<br />
data directory<br />
knowledge facility<br />
Question 5. Question : (TCO 2) ________ control and coordinate the use of software to support group work.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Expert tool users<br />
Facilitators<br />
Analysts<br />
Managers<br />
Question 6. Question : (TCO 2) The de facto DSS hardware standard is a(n) ________ through which the DBMS<br />
provides data.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
web server<br />
data center<br />
mainframe<br />
local area network<br />
Question 7. Question : (TCO 2) All of the following are characteristics of Planners Lab, except:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Planners Lab makes it possible for the decision makers to play with assumptions to reflect alternative views<br />
of the future.<br />
it lets decision makers describe their plans in their own words and with their own assumptions.<br />
it facilitates a conversation with the decision maker in the process of describing business assumptions.<br />
all assumptions are described in English equations only.<br />
Question 8. Question : (TCO 7) A data warehouse contains ________ about how data are organized and how<br />
to use them effectively.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
a data directory<br />
a data index<br />
data fields<br />
metadata<br />
Question 9. Question : (TCO 7) The advantage of three-tier architecture for data warehousing is its separation<br />
of the functions of the data warehouse, which eliminates resource constraints and makes it possible to easily create<br />
data ________.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
banks<br />
cubes<br />
bases<br />
marts<br />
Question 10. Question : (TCO 7) Users demanding access via PDAs and through speech recognition and<br />
synthesis is becoming more commonplace, further complicating ________ issues.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
data extraction<br />
data load<br />
data integration
o<br />
OLAP<br />
Question 11. Question : (TCO 7) ETL process consists of extract, transform, and load. Transformation occurs<br />
by using ________ or lookup tables, or by combining the data with other data.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
rules<br />
policies<br />
strategies<br />
procedures<br />
Question 12. Question : (TCO 7) Guidelines that need to be considered when developing a vendor list include<br />
all of the following, except:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
financial strength.<br />
trade shows.<br />
ERP linkages.<br />
market shares.<br />
Question 13. Question : (TCO 8) Which of the following are created when operational data need to be analyzed<br />
multidimensionally?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Oper marts<br />
Customer information file<br />
Dependent data marts<br />
Independent data marts<br />
Question 14. Question : (TCO 8) Once data are entered into the warehouse, users cannot change or update<br />
the data. Obsolete data are discarded, and changes are recorded as new data. This ________ characteristic is one of<br />
the characteristics of data warehousing.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
changeable<br />
nonvolatile<br />
nonperishable<br />
static<br />
Question 15. Question : (TCO 8) A ________ contains the attributes needed to perform decision analysis,<br />
descriptive attributes used for query reporting, and foreign keys to link to dimension tables.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
fact table<br />
schema<br />
dictionary<br />
glossary<br />
<strong>BIS</strong> <strong>445</strong> <strong>DeVry</strong> Week 3 <strong>Quiz</strong> Latest<br />
1. Question : (TCO 4) BPM is an enterprise-wide strategy that seeks to prevent organizations from optimizing<br />
________ business at the expense of overall corporate performance.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
corporate-wide<br />
global<br />
regional<br />
local
Question 2. Question : (TCO 8) A(n) ________ plan translates an organization's strategic objectives and goals<br />
into a set of well-defined tactics and initiatives, resources requirements, and expected results for some future time<br />
period.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
business<br />
operational<br />
tactical<br />
strategic<br />
Question 3. Question : (TCO 4) An organization's strategic objectives and key metrics should serve as ________<br />
drivers for the allocation of an organization's tangible and intangible assets.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
bottom-up<br />
top-down<br />
company wide<br />
revenue<br />
Question 4. Question : (TCO 4) Which of the following is used to align business activities to the vision and<br />
strategy of the organization?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Dashboard<br />
Performance reengineering<br />
Balanced scorecard (BSC)<br />
Total quality management<br />
Question 5. Question : (TCO 4) Balanced scorecards translates an organization's vision and strategy into a set<br />
of interrelated financial and nonfinancial objectives. All of the following are nonfinancial objectives, except:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
business rules.<br />
customers.<br />
internal business processes.<br />
learning and growth.<br />
Question 6. Question : (TCO 8) Which of the following is a characteristic of Six Sigma?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Production<br />
Planning<br />
Performance<br />
Training<br />
Question 7. Question : (TCO 4) ________ is a framework for organizing, automating, and analyzing business<br />
methodologies, metrics, processes, and systems to drive the overall performance of the enterprise.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Business performance management (BPM)<br />
Metrics<br />
Decision support<br />
Expert systems<br />
Question 8. Question : (TCO 4) In a ________ plan, tactics are established to meet the objectives and targets<br />
established in the strategic plan.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
performance management<br />
tactic-centric<br />
environment scan<br />
key performance indicators
Question 9. Question : (TCO 4) __________ refers to both the logical and physical design of a BPM system.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Structure<br />
Architecture<br />
Infrastructure<br />
Unstructured<br />
Question 10. Question : (TCO 4) Which of the following displays key performance metrics in which a manager<br />
is interested?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Performance scorecards<br />
Performance dashboards<br />
Performance interfaces<br />
Performance comparisons charts<br />
Question 11. Question : (TCO 4) KPI stand for ________, which are strategically aligned metrics.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
key performance indicators<br />
key planning initiatives<br />
key platform indicators<br />
key principle indicators<br />
Question 12. Question : (TCO 8) ________ focuses on reducing the variation or improving the consistency of a<br />
process.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Six Sigma<br />
Performance improvement<br />
Dashboards<br />
Scorecards<br />
Question 13. Question : (TCO 8) ________ focuses on the elimination of waste or non-value-added activities.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Quality<br />
Improvement<br />
Competiveness<br />
Lean<br />
Question 14. Question : (TCO 8) Six Sigma is a performance management methodology aimed at reducing the<br />
number of defects in a business process to as close to ________ as possible.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
DPMO<br />
performance reengineering<br />
a balanced scorecard (BSC)<br />
total quality management<br />
Question 15. Question : (TCO 4) Dashboards and ________ both provide visual displays of important<br />
information that is consolidated and arranged on a single screen so that information can be digested at a single glance<br />
and easily explored.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
flashcards<br />
performance reengineering<br />
scorecards<br />
total quality management
<strong>BIS</strong> <strong>445</strong> <strong>DeVry</strong> Week 4 <strong>Quiz</strong> Latest<br />
1. Question : (TCO 2) Which of the following is a key element in most DSS and a necessity in a model-based<br />
DSS?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Database<br />
Analytical model<br />
Modeling<br />
Business intelligence<br />
Question 2. Question : (TCO 2) Which of the following techniques is used to solve optimization problems that<br />
have few alternatives?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Trial-and-error<br />
Binary search<br />
Expert systems<br />
Decision trees<br />
Question 3. Question : (TCO 3) Decision situations are often classified on the basis of what the decision maker<br />
knows about the forecasted results. Which of the following is one of the categories?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Indecision<br />
Firmness<br />
Ambiguity<br />
Certainty<br />
Question 4. Question : (TCO 2) A model builder makes predictions and assumptions regarding the input data,<br />
many of which deal with the assessment of uncertain futures. Which of the following attempts to assess the impact of<br />
a change in the input data or parameters on the proposed solution?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Mathematical relationships<br />
Decision analysis<br />
Goal programming<br />
Sensitivity analysis<br />
Question 5. Question : (TCO 3) Which of the following calculates the values of the inputs necessary to achieve<br />
a desired level of an output?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Goal seeking analysis<br />
Decision analysis<br />
Trial-and-error<br />
Sensitivity analysis<br />
Question 6. Question : (TCO 2) Data mining is tightly positioned at the intersection of many disciplines. Those<br />
disciplines include all of the following, except:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
management science.<br />
statistics.<br />
information systems and databases.<br />
logistics.<br />
Question 7. Question : (TCO 3) Which of the following packages are preprogrammed (sometimes called readymade)<br />
models and optimization systems that sometimes serve as building blocks for other quantitative models?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Quantitative software<br />
Qualitative software
o<br />
o<br />
Development tool<br />
Application<br />
Question 8. Question : (TCO 3) On the commercial side, the most common use of data mining has been in<br />
________ sectors.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
manufacturing and heath care<br />
finance, retail, and health care<br />
online retail and government<br />
R&D and scientific<br />
Question 9. Question : (TCO 2) What is a major characteristic of data mining?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Data mining tools are readily combined with spreadsheets and other software development tools.<br />
Because of the large amounts of data and massive search efforts, it is sometimes necessary to use serial<br />
processing for data mining.<br />
Data are often buried within numerous small and large databases, which sometimes contain data from several<br />
years.<br />
The miner needs sophisticated programming skills.<br />
Question 10. Question : (TCO 3) Data that has a meaningful, or nonarbitrary, zero point is ________ data.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
categorical<br />
nominal<br />
interval<br />
ratio<br />
Question 11. Question : (TCO 3) Data mining seeks to identify patterns in the data. All of the following are major<br />
types of patterns, except:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
associations.<br />
regression.<br />
predictions.<br />
clusters.<br />
Question 12. Question : (TCO 3) ________ are, essentially, a hierarchy of if-then statements. They are most<br />
appropriate for categorical and interval data.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Neural nets<br />
Clusters<br />
Decision trees<br />
Time-series<br />
Question 13. Question : (TCO 2) The simple split methodology splits the data into two mutually exclusive subsets<br />
called a ________ set and a ________ set.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
training; test<br />
positive; negative<br />
holdout; training<br />
matrix; test<br />
Question 14. Question : (TCO 3) A good question to ask with respect to the patterns/relationships that<br />
association rule mining can discover is, "Are all association rules interesting and useful?" In order to answer such a<br />
question, association rule mining uses two common metrics: ________ and ________.<br />
o<br />
mean; median
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
support; confidence<br />
standard deviation; confidence interval<br />
regression; distance measure<br />
Question 15. Question : (TCO 3) ________ is a decision making method that analyzes the risk associated with<br />
different alternatives.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Goal seeking<br />
What-if analysis<br />
Risk analysis<br />
Risk matrix<br />
<strong>BIS</strong> <strong>445</strong> <strong>DeVry</strong> Week 5 <strong>Quiz</strong> Latest<br />
1. Question : (TCO 6) An artificial neural network is composed of many interconnected ________.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
artificial units<br />
artificial cells<br />
artificial neurons<br />
artificial atoms<br />
Question 2. Question : (TCO 6) Pioneers McCulloch and Pitts built their neural network model using a large<br />
number of interconnected ________ artificial neurons.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
dual<br />
binary<br />
singular<br />
serial<br />
Question 3. Question : (TCO 6) The output of neurons can be the final result, or it can be a(n) ________ to other<br />
neurons.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
source<br />
contribution<br />
key<br />
input<br />
Question 4. Question : (TCO 5) In linear regression analysis, which of the following represents the percent<br />
reduction in error when the line of best fit is used to make a prediction, compared to the error generated using the<br />
mean?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
R-squared<br />
F-statistic<br />
The y-intercept<br />
None of the above<br />
Question 5. Question : (TCO 5) If a statistically significant linear regression model is y = 5x + 10, and x = 12,<br />
what is the predicted value of y?<br />
o 17<br />
o 2/5<br />
o 10<br />
o 70
Question 6. Question : (TCO 5) The summation function computes the ________ sums of all the input elements<br />
that are entered in each processing element.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
weighted<br />
averaged<br />
total<br />
aggregated<br />
Question 7. Question : (TCO 6) Which of the following is not a consideration in selecting a neural network<br />
structure?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Selection of a topology<br />
Determination of input nodes<br />
Determination of output nodes<br />
Determination of weighting functions<br />
Question 8. Question : (TCO 5) All of the following are popular application areas of text mining, except:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
information extraction.<br />
document summarization.<br />
question answering.<br />
data structuring.<br />
Question 9. Question : (TCO 6) Data mining differs from knowledge management in which of the following ways?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Data mining seeks to retain employee knowledge, while knowledge management seeks to guide knowledge.<br />
Data mining uses the Internet more than knowledge management.<br />
Data mining seeks to make ways of doing business known to others, while knowledge management is<br />
concerned with identifying patterns in data.<br />
Data mining is concerned with identifying patterns in data, while knowledge management is concerned with<br />
ensuring employee knowledge stays with the company.<br />
Question 10. Question : (TCO 6) The two main approaches to text classification are ________ and ________.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
knowledge engineering; machine learning<br />
categorization; clustering<br />
association; trend analysis<br />
knowledge; extraction<br />
Question 11. Question : (TCO 6) Why does the Web pose great challenges for effective and efficient knowledge<br />
discovery?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
The Web search engines are indexed-based.<br />
The Web is too dynamic.<br />
The Web is too specific to a domain.<br />
The Web infrastructure contains hyperlink information.<br />
Question 12. Question : (TCO 6) Which of the following components is considered the building block of an<br />
artificial neural network?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
The PE<br />
The training algorithm<br />
The artificial neuron<br />
The search algorithm
Question 13. Question : (TCO 6) A network which learns to make accurate predictions by comparing its own<br />
output to known output is called a _________ network.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
unsupervised<br />
dynamic<br />
supervised<br />
static<br />
Question 14. Question : (TCO 6) This type of neural network problem seeks to classify inputs into classes, such<br />
as healthy or not healthy.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Clustering<br />
Function approximation<br />
Classification<br />
Data mining<br />
Question 15. Question : (TCO 6) This type of classification problem seeks to group data into categories that are<br />
the most unique when given the characteristics of the underlying data.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Clustering<br />
Function approximation<br />
Classification<br />
Data mining<br />
<strong>BIS</strong> <strong>445</strong> <strong>DeVry</strong> Week 7 <strong>Quiz</strong> Latest<br />
1. Question : (TCO 5) In ________ expert systems, knowledge in the knowledge base is represented in IF-THEN<br />
rules that combine the condition and the conclusion for handling a specific situation.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
answer-based<br />
rule-based<br />
knowledge-based<br />
experience-based<br />
Question 2. Question : (TCO 1) Which of the following components appears in virtually every expert system?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
User interface<br />
Database management system<br />
Statistical analysis module<br />
Numeric data representation<br />
Question 3. Question : (TCO 1) Which of the following is the brain of an expert system?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Knowledge base<br />
Inference engine<br />
User interface<br />
Blackboard<br />
Question 4. Question : (TCO 5) Which of the following is not an advantage of fuzzy logic?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Greater flexibility<br />
Faster calculations<br />
More options
o<br />
All of the above are advantages.<br />
Question 5. Question : (TCO 1) What is an organization's valuable knowledge of its employees?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Effective and efficient problem solving<br />
Corporate information<br />
Intellectual capital<br />
Active management<br />
Question 6. Question : (TCO 1) Firms adopt knowledge management systems:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
to help deal with employee turnover.<br />
to increase productivity.<br />
to improve customer service.<br />
All of the above<br />
Question 7. Question : (TCO 1) Artificial intelligence (AI) supports knowledge management in each of the<br />
following ways, except:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
by enhancing knowledge searches.<br />
by helping to determine the relative importance of the knowledge.<br />
by manipulating current results.<br />
by identifying patterns in data.<br />
Question 8. Question : (TCO 1) Lessons learned from the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) knowledge<br />
management system includes all of the following, except:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
high-tech and large budgets are necessary to attain knowledge management success.<br />
the BBC runs on knowledge.<br />
design the system to match the way the company functions (e.g., as a social network).<br />
blogs and wikis have helped break down silos and spread knowledge.<br />
Question 9. Question : (TCO 1) __________ are the doorways into many knowledge management systems.<br />
They have evolved from the concepts underlying EIS, GSS, Web browsers, and DBMS.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Expert location systems<br />
Knowledge sharing systems<br />
Social networks<br />
Enterprise knowledge portals<br />
Question 10. Question : (TCO 5) __________ allows computers to examine historical cases and generate rules<br />
that can be chained to solve new problems.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Inductive learning<br />
Simulation<br />
Optimization<br />
Artificial intelligence<br />
Question 11. Question : (TCO 5) Which of the following are special cases that contain rich contents and special<br />
features of deep implications?<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Descriptive cases<br />
Foundation cases<br />
Special cases<br />
Stories cases
Question 12. Question : (TCO 1) A chromosome in a genetic algorithm refers to ________.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
crossover<br />
summation<br />
mutation<br />
candidate solution<br />
Question 13. Question : (TCO 1) Knowledge is:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
dynamic.<br />
contextual.<br />
information in action.<br />
All of the above<br />
Question 14. Question : (TCO 1) The basic rationale of artificial intelligence is to use ________ rather than<br />
mathematical calculation.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
neural networks<br />
symbolic reasoning<br />
genetic algorithms<br />
fuzzy logic<br />
Question 15. Question : (TCO 5) The standard statistical methods are based on the assumption that an<br />
uncertainty is the ________ that an event is true or false, whereas certainty theory is based on the ________ that an<br />
event is true or false.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
estimated probability; calculated probability<br />
probability; degrees of belief<br />
calculated probability; estimated probability<br />
degrees of belief; probability